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Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7483-1
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship
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Published:February 2016
Chapter 4 reads trans people’s practices of transgendering as resorting to the adoption of morphing technologies to appropriate the gender script of liberal citizenship. The idea of morphing differs from Judith Butler’s notion of queer performativity in that, while the latter ultimately dissuades subjects from complicity in reinscribing gender binary, the former accentuates the creative use of complicity in the heteronormative capitalist economy as key to strengthen queer disruption and trans social change. The chapter distinguishes between two interpenetrating modes of morphing technologies adopted by trans people to disrupt and appropriate liberal gender citizenship: “morphing in” (when trans people morph...
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